![]() ![]() Richard Attenborough’s multiple Academy Award-winning film “Gandhi” (1982) brightened the halo around him Philip Glass’s opera “ Satyagraha” sanctifies him. ![]() Six decades after his death and many biographies later, Gandhi is remembered through iconic images - a photo of him scooping up a fistful of salt in defiance of the British salt tax, or picking himself up at Pietermaritzburg train station after he was thrown off a first-class compartment because he wasn’t white. But the aura of saintliness surrounding him made it difficult for scholars to criticize him. Gandhi became unwavering in his beliefs and was indeed a stubborn and complicated man. (His collected works add up to nearly 100 volumes.) He also wrote an unsparingly honest autobiography, “ The Story of My Experiments with Truth,” which emphasized his explorations of different faiths, philosophical ideas and moral impulses. He left a vast trail of personal papers forbiographers to decipher that message. Mohandas Gandhi said his life was his message. ![]()
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